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Most of the clatter and crash which culminates next Tuesday in the Cambridge city elections has surrounded the lively battle for City Council seats. This is hardly unusual, but it will be highly unfortunate if the big build-up for the main contest leads Cantabrigians to ignore the equally important voting for School Committee members...
...Slow Build...
...true, then, another reporter asked, that "the policy will be one of a slower, long-range, ten-year build...
...papers and problems waiting for him back at the office. But toward the end of the 34-minute session, a question about defense policy sparked the President into a strong-voiced exposition of his thinking. Asked a reporter: Does the decision to stretch out NATO's defense build-up "represent a change in policy from the time that you were in command of NATO forces?" Replied the President, thumping the desk: There must be constant review of build-up plans. To defend themselves, nations must make a living, and the problem of making a living must be collated with...
Mono Lisa's Smile. From his briefcase dour West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer produced a pile of secret German intelligence documents describing the military build-up of Russia and its satellites; he listed fact & figure evidence of "the tragic disparity" between Eastern power and Western ability to resist it. "I have been watching these things for many years," warned Adenauer, "and I must say there has never been a threat so great from the East. There is no time to lose...